Robyn Asimov acknowledges that her father’s books had strong storytelling but lacked character development, which is something the TV adaptation improves upon.
David S. Goyer, the showrunner of Foundation, breathes life into the characters and takes the story to another level, which Robyn Asimov believes her father would have been impressed by.
The TV show adds an exciting new dimension to her father’s work by bringing the characters to life, an element that was not a focus in his original writing.
I mean, I always felt like it was intentionally written that way…?
Yeah that’s what I consider hard sci-fi. Not spending a lot of time with the characters and just focusing on the challenges and interesting situations technology causes.
That’s… not hard sci-fi though.
Hard sci-fi is “sci-fi, but all the tech either exists, or can be logically (somewhat loosely) extrapolated from existing tech”. As in: no FTL, no antigravity/inertial dampening, etc. It has nothing to do with the extent or depth of character development.
Interesting perspective. I read the first three books, and liked them, but I also noticed the lack of character development.
It never occurred to me that it may have been done deliberately. What makes you think so?